Women in philosophy are notorious underrepresented. Brit Brogaard has written a useful summary of a recent APA symposium on the status of women in the profession.You might notice that women are especially underrepresented on Brains. Out of 14 contributors (including me), only one is a woman. (Thank you, Anna-Mari.) This …
The Department of Philosophy at Indiana University, Bloomington is hosting the conference “Agency and Responsibility: Perspectives from Metaphysics, Ethics, and the Emerging Sciences of Brain and Behavior” on September 13-15, 2007. Speakers include Richard Holton (MIT), Jennifer Hornsby (Birkbeck College), Al Mele (Florida State U), Shaun Nichols (U Arizona), Adina …
The second annual Online Philosophy Conference (OPC2) is beginning in a week. There are two videotaped keynote addresses, one by Ernie Sosa and one by Jeff McMahan, and papers will be presented by (week one) Delia Graf, Shaun Nichols, Meredith Williams, and Juan Comesana, and (week two) Jonathan Dancy, Gillian Russell, …
Slate has a special issue out on “neuroscience and neuroculture”. (Link courtesy of Corey Maley.)
Here. (If you haven’t read Dennett’s piece “Higher Order Truths about Chmess,” I recommend it.)
I just read John Earman and John Roberts’ interesting papers defending Humean Supervenience about laws of nature, in PPR 2005. They argue that facts about which generalizations are nomic supervene on non-nomic observable facts. Their argument is that without such supervenience, it would be impossible to find empirical justification for …
Today’s NY Times has a nice article on recent evidence that contrary to popular belief (especially among philosophers), some animals have a form of episodic memory and the ability to plan for future events.
